…and the house he shares with his people.

Upcoming Projects

The maple tree has pretty much taken over the front yard — mowing under it is an adventure, and once its leaves come in later this spring, our house will all but disappear behind it and the other red maple on the other side of our driveway. It’s a pretty tree, but it may have outgrown the yard. We’re going to prune off the entire bottom whorl of branches and see how we like it. We haven’t excluded the idea of pulling it out entirely, but we figured there’s no reason not to take it down by degrees so we could see how we like it.

2. The mailbox:

I am actively jealous, on a daily basis, of many margaritas it looks like it has had. The planter on the back weighs a TON after it rains, and has been pulling it further and further backward for who-knows-how-long. The post isn’t really in good enough shape anymore to straighten it out, so a new mailbox and post are in our foreseeable future.

3. Bishop’s weed: just say no.

The rubber boundary around this flower bed (full of bishop’s weed and a few day lilies) no longer connects in the foreground area, so the bishop’s weed is currently free to run amok (which it will if left unchecked) in the yard (which also admittedly needs some help). We’d like to pull the entire flower bed out (wish us luck with the bishop’s weed) and just plant grass around the tree. All the more space for Guinness to run around — and isn’t this entire house/yard/blog about Guin’s yard…?